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Seit ihrer Verschriftlichung im 18. Jahrhundert wird die Figur des Vampirs als fremdartig beschrieben. Ihre dauerhafte Ästhetisierung – von Goethes Die Braut von Corinth bis Bram Stokers Dracula – verhalf der Figur zu einer beispiellosen Karriere, die bei genauerer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise A Streetcar Named Desire throughout the course.This Study and...
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Hodder Education
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2016-03-21
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Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States. The book provides a historical...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-18
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This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear...
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Springer
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2016-03-17
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in terms of neural...
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Springer
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2016-03-16
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Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancientGreek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation ofGreek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-16
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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Exam Board: AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Enable students to achieve their best grade in GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise The Handmaid's Tale throughout the course.This Study and Revise...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise the AQA A Poetry Anthology throughout the course.This Study and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Dieser Jahrgangsband der Simpliciana enthält elf Vorträge, die während der Tagung zum Thema Grimmelshausens Der seltzame Springinsfeld Mitte Juni 2015 in Oberkirch und Renchen gehalten wurden. Sieben weitere Beiträge ergänzen das neue Jahrbuch. Die Rubrik «Rezensionen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' HamletThis entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare’s wisest and wittiest quotations. The Wit and Wisdom of William Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Exam Board: AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Enable students to achieve their best grade in GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-03-07
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Die Monographie leistet einen Beitrag zu einer Forschungsrichtung, die man analog zur New Imperial History als Neue Imperiale Literaturgeschichte bezeichnen könnte. Durch die Verbannung des polnischen Dichters Adam Mickiewicz nach Russland kam es in den 1820er Jahren zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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John Foxe wrote the first English history of the Ottoman Empire in his magnum opus, The Acts and Monuments. He exceeds contemporary representations in his extremely negative image of Islam and the «Turks,» who are identified as Antichrist and the epitome of wickedness....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-03
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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-29
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-29
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In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-29
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